Still no market-based and consistent regulation for the State Treaty on Gambling in sight. RGA disappointed by German gambling law proposals. EU-wide legally secure solution only offered in Schleswig-Holstein. The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), the largest trade association for remote gambling operators in the world, has expressed its deep disappointment at the continuing absence of a properly regulated and competitive German gambling market for private remote gambling operators and consumers.

The Remote Gambling Association, representing the largest online gambling operators and software providers in the world, has today lodged a State aid complaint with the European Commission challenging the compatibility of the Greek Government’s new gambling law with EU State aid requirements. The complaint focuses on the favourable tax treatment afforded to the part state-owned gambling operator OPAP’s land-based services in relation to private online gambling operators.

The European Commission has rejected a State aid complaint lodged by a number of Danish land-based gambling operators challenging the lower tax rate to be imposed on online gambling operators via the Danish Gaming Duties Act 2010. The Remote Gambling Association, which has supported the Danish Government’s ability to vary its gambling tax rate where there are clear and justifiable reasons to do so, has provided detailed evidence to the Commission and has welcomed the judgement and its wider implications.

The UK Government today announced its intention to introduce new legislation that would call for all remote gambling operators with British customers to obtain British licences, irrespective of where those companies are based. Clive Hawkswood, the RGA’s Chief Executive commented that: ‘Now that the Government has confirmed its intentions...